[l2h] Help with latex/latex2html layout

Ian Thurlbeck Ian Thurlbeck <ian@stams.strath.ac.uk>
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:53:39 +0100


Dear All

I'm trying to layout a page in latex which is readily
translatable with latex2html but, alas, I cannot do what I
want.  Here is a diagram of what I want:

 -----------
|           |  Some more text
|  Some     | 
|           |  adjacent to
|  text in  |  
|           |  the frame box.
|  a framed |
|           |
|  box.     |
|           |
 -----------

To keep the 2 bits of text adjacent in the HTML I can
use a tabular environment within an outer tabular
environment.  I can put a border around the left hand table
by specifiying a vertical bar in the column specs.  However,
I also need to insert some vertical space (I used \\)
in the left hand table.  When converted to HTML this "whitespace"
is inserted into separate <TR>'s and I get horizontal lines
in the left hand table. Here is the (simplified) HTML:

<TABLE>
<TR><TD><TABLE BORDER="1">

<TR><TH>Some</TH></TR>

<TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR><TH>text in</TH></TR>

<TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR><TH>a framed</TH></TR>
etc...

This comes out as:
 -----------
|           |  Some more text
|  Some     | 
|-----------|
|-----------|  adjacent to
|  text in  |  
|-----------|  the frame box.
|-----------|
|  a framed |
|-----------|
|-----------|
|  box.     |
|           |
 -----------

Question: How can I get the entire left hand box contents, with
some vertical spacing between the lines, into one <TR><TD> section ?

Many thanks!

Ian 
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